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  Rush Limbaugh Online : cyber emporium of Rush Limbaugh humor
Rush Limbaugh loves to insist that he has a deep understanding of "mainstream America", so much so that he is entitled to speak for us and does so every time he opens up his mouth.
Rush Limbaugh followers just love to insist it is the liberals who engage in name calling and lower the tone of debate, all the while cheering on Limbaugh and holding him up as some sort of example of how to behave.
Rush Limbaugh should speak for his listeners and ask for proof of the the reasons why Americans are dying and we are spending billions of dollars.
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  Rush Limbaugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Limbaugh was the 1992, 1995, 2000, and 2005 recipient of the Marconi Radio Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year, given by the National Association of Broadcasters, joining the syndicated Bob and Tom Show as the only other four-time winner of a Marconi award.
Limbaugh's attorney Roy Black alleged that the chief county prosecutor investigating Limbaugh, an elected Democrat, was politically motivated.
Limbaugh is highly critical of environmentalism and has disputed human-caused global warming and the relationship between CFCs and depletion of the ozone layer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rush_Limbaugh   (5241 words)

  
 Rush Limbaugh - dKosopedia
Limbaugh stated that he was not drafted because a physical found that he had an "inoperable pilonidal cyst" and "a football knee from high school" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
Limbaugh's response to this is to claim the standard talking-point that most news reporting is "liberally biased" (in particular, television and newspaper news); a common saying of his is "I am equal time." He also has resorted on occasions to defend his bias by stating that he is a commentator and entertainer, not a reporter.
Limbaugh's former housekeeper, under investigation for drug dealing, alleged that Limbaugh was addicted to prescription opiate painkillers such as OxyContin, Lorcet (a combination of Tylenol and hydrocodone), and hydrocodone, and that he went through detox twice.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Rush_Limbaugh   (3025 words)

  
 Rush Limbaugh - Media Matters
Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio show has an estimated audience of nearly 15 million weekly listeners.
Limbaugh has also spread numerous rumors and conspiracy theories about the Clinton family, alleging that Hillary Rodham Clinton was involved in the 1993 suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and peddling gay-baiting sexual innuendo about Clinton based on Edward Klein's error- and innuendo-filled book, The Truth About Hillary.
Limbaugh was forced to resign from his position as a football analyst on ESPN in 2003 after he claimed that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because "[t]he media has been very desirous that a fl quarterback do well." The following season, McNabb led his team to the Super Bowl.
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 Rush Limbaugh On the Offensive Against Ad With Michael J. Fox - washingtonpost.com
Limbaugh, whose syndicated radio program has a weekly audience of about 10 million, was reacting to Fox's appearance in another one of the spots, for Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill, running against Republican Sen. James M. Talent.
Later Monday, still on the air, Limbaugh would apologize, but reaction to his statements from Parkinson's experts and Fox's supporters was swift and angry.
Limbaugh's shock at Fox's appearance is a measure of the disease's devastation, advocates say.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102400691.html   (818 words)

  
 The New American - Rush Limbaugh: Establishment Dittohead - July 10, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rush promptly took to the airwaves and spent the next three hours suggesting that senators who voted against the amendment proposal would be deleated in the next election.
Limbaugh's role as premier debunker of the notion of the Conspiracy was previously filled by friend and mentor William F. Buckley, who has molded his career as a "respectable conservative," holding hands with the left while attempting to destroy the efforts of true conservatives trying to steer Americans in the right direction.
Rush Limbaugh wants to be known only as "a mainstream conservative," but the "mainstream conservatism" he espouses is similar to that of William F. Buckley, Jr., Newt Gingrich, and other CFR notables who enjoy being identified as "conservative" but whose agenda is helping to steer this nation toward self-destruction.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1995/vo11no14/vo11no14_limbaugh.htm   (6577 words)

  
 CNN.com - Limbaugh admits addiction to pain medication - Oct. 10, 2003
Rush Limbaugh announced on his radio program Friday that he is addicted to pain medication and that he is checking himself into a treatment center immediately.
Limbaugh said he left the show "Sunday NFL Countdown" to protect the network from the uproar caused by his statement that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a fl quarterback succeed.
Limbaugh is one of the most recognized talk show hosts in the nation and also one of the most controversial.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh   (847 words)

  
 CNN.com - Limbaugh admits addiction to pain medication - Oct. 10, 2003
Rush Limbaugh announced on his radio program Friday that he is addicted to pain medication and that he is checking himself into a treatment center immediately.
Limbaugh said he left the show "Sunday NFL Countdown" to protect the network from the uproar caused by his statement that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a fl quarterback succeed.
Limbaugh is one of the most recognized talk show hosts in the nation and also one of the most controversial.
cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh   (857 words)

  
 Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh was born into a prominent Missouri family, and raised in a town about thirty miles from the Kentucky border.
Limbaugh's radio career was revived by Norm Woodruff, a San Francisco radio executive who urged friends at Sacramento's KFBK to hire him at a time when he was essentially unknown in the radio business.
In 2003, Limbaugh was forced to resign as a football commentator at ESPN amid allegations of racism, after he said in a telecast that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated, given "extra credit" because the league and the media wanted a fl quarterback to be successful.
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 New York Daily News - Home - Rush Limbaugh in pill probe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Limbaugh, 52, suffered from autoimmune ear disease, a condition that left him deaf and had to be corrected with cochlear implant surgery two years ago.
Limbaugh stepped down from the sports network’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” late Wednesday, three days after saying on the show that McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a fl quarterback succeed.
Limbaugh did not directly address media reports that began surfacing Wednesday that said the talk show host was under investigation in Florida for allegedly illegally obtaining and abusing prescription painkillers.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/122839p-110349c.html   (1165 words)

  
 WRKO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Limbaugh hosts "The Rush Limbaugh Morning Update," a 90-second commentary which debuted in March 1992 and airs Monday through Friday.
Limbaugh is also the author of "The Limbaugh Letter," the most widely read political newsletter in the country, as well as two best-selling books, The Way Things Ought to Be and See, I Told You So, which have sold more than 8.9 million copies.
Born Rush Hudson Limbaugh III in Jan. 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to a family with generations of attorneys, he chose to explore his passion for broadcasting at age 16 by working on-air as a disc jockey for a radio station in his hometown.
www.wrko.com /showdj.asp?djid=13405   (561 words)

  
 Rush Limbaugh fakes stupidity. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Limbaugh's tirade was in response to a TV ad Fox appeared in for Claire McCaskill, Missouri's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
Limbaugh later retreated to the position that Fox didn't fake the symptoms, but rather that he refrained deliberately from taking his medication, something Fox apparently did seven years ago to demonstrate the effects of the disease while testifying before Congress.
Limbaugh's continued refusal to drop the matter as more commentators become aware of his stunningly boorish remarks has inevitably led some of these commentators to conclude that Limbaugh is mentally defective.
www.slate.com /id/2152195?nav=wp   (1033 words)

  
 The Way Things Aren't:
Rush Limbaugh has gotten a lot of mileage out of his claim that volcanoes do more harm to the ozone layer than human-produced chemicals.
LIMBAUGH: Comparing the 1950s with the present: "And I might point out that poverty and economic disparities between the lower and upper classes were greater during the former period." (Told You So, p.
LIMBAUGH: The lead item on a page of "Stupid Quotes" in the May '94 Limbaugh Letter--subtitled, "Folks, I don't make this stuff up"--was a quote attributed to Eleanor Clift on the McLaughlin Group: "Hillary and Bill Clinton cheating on their taxes was a protest against the Reagan era tax breaks for the wealthy....
www.fair.org /index.php?page=1895   (5037 words)

  
 Is Rush Limbaugh a Racist?
Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants, but ABC and ESPN have no obligation to sponsor such hateful and ignorant speech.
Rush Limbaugh expressed an opinion about the sport of football which is what ESPN hired him to do.
On his popular EIBN radio talk show Rush Limbaugh had been extremely critical of that particular racialist farce, so he was already on the "hit list" of the racial special interests.
www.adversity.net /special/rush_limbaugh.htm   (1054 words)

  
 AlterNet: DrugReporter: Reforming Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh's noxious lack of sympathy for others in similar predicaments -- he has often demonized drug offenders to his national audience of "dittoheads" -- tests one's commitment to the idea of nonincarceration, compassion and treatment for all nonviolent drug offenders.
Rush Limbaugh is the man who scoffed at the idea that African-Americans are disproportionately arrested on drug charges -- he suggested that the solution was to arrest more white people.
Limbaugh contends that his addiction was a byproduct of taking painkillers for chronic pain from a back injury.
www.alternet.org /drugreporter/35742   (5867 words)

  
 Rush was right about Donovan McNabb. By Allen Barra - Slate Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rush Limbaugh didn't say Donovan McNabb was a bad quarterback because he is fl.
Limbaugh wasn't calling the Democratic candidates assholes, but raised a point very much germane to the sport he was commenting on.
What made Limbaugh's comment useful was that it illustrates his paranoid cast of mind, his tendency to postulate powerful forces pursuing nefarious, white race defeating schemes as an explanation for almost everything--even the Eagles not winning the Super Bowl.
slate.msn.com /id/2089193   (2479 words)

  
 I Am Addicted to Prescription Pain Medication - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
Law-enforcement sources tell NEWSWEEK that Limbaugh’s exposure as a pain-pill addict began when Wilma Cline, 42, who had worked at Limbaugh’s $30 million Florida estate from 1997 to July 2001, showed up at the Palm Beach County state attorney’s office late last year eager to sic the cops on her former boss.
Limbaugh protested that the stories contained “inaccuracies and distortions,” but last Friday, his vast listening audience heard that resonant, righteous, morally certain voice admit that he had become an addict and was entering rehab.
When Rush Limbaugh declared to his radio audience that he was “your epitome of morality of virtue, a man you could totally trust with your wife, your daughter, and even your son in a Motel 6 overnight,” he was acting.
msnbc.msn.com /id/3158206   (786 words)

  
 Media Matters - Limbaugh: Democrats "set Foley up ... it's all coordinated"
On the October 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the recent resignation of former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), which came after allegations that Foley sent inappropriate emails to a 16-year-old male congressional page, was a "set...
Limbaugh also stated that "the orgy and the orgasm that has been taking place in the media since Friday and with the Democrats is...
Limbaugh has been involved in a conspiracy to make Democrats look bad, and so he asserts that Foley is a 'victim' of a conspiracy.
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 Rush Limbaugh - SourceWatch
Rush Limbaugh is a right-wing radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a property of Clear Channel Communications.
Limbaugh said on his syndicated show that "I think this is exploitative in a way that's unbecoming of either Claire McCaskill or Michael J. Fox" and, appearing to "back away from his accusation", Limbaugh added "All I'm saying is I've never seen him the way he appears in this commercial for Claire McCaskill...
Limbaugh was criticized for having condemned drug users and mocking claims of rehabilitation before his own drug problems were revealed.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh   (2276 words)

  
 Al Franken vs. Rush Limbaugh
Like Rush himself, many on the left have settled on the answer that it was a simple matter of talent and recognizing an opportunity.
Besides, all Rush did was realize there was an audience for conservative talk and, like any good businessman would, decide to use his radio talent to cater to this market.
Limbaugh, as Paul Colford reported in his 1993 book The Rush Limbaugh Story, was not even registered in the first 12 years he was eligible to vote and so (insincerity catch!) never went to the polls for his hero Ronald Reagan.
www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/907dhnfn.asp   (550 words)

  
 Rush Limbaugh - A Rush Limbaugh Hometown Page - Cape Girardeau, Missouri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rush Limbaugh was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri January 12, 1951.
These Rush Limbaugh pages are maintained by Danny Farrow as a part of his homepage.
Disclaimer: These Rush Limbaugh web pages are not authorized by or participated in by Rush Limbaugh, his family or associates.
rosecity.net /rush/rush_limbaugh.html   (765 words)

  
 Clear Channel defends Limbaugh after 'phony soldiers' remark - CNN.com
Limbaugh's history of support for our soldiers, it would be unfair for me to assume his statements were intended to personally indict combat soldiers simply because they didn't share his own beliefs regarding the war in Iraq."
Limbaugh's remark came on a September 26 program as he and a caller were discussing critics of the Iraq war.
Responding to his critics on Friday's show, Limbaugh said he was "taken out of context," adding he was referring to one soldier specifically -- Jesse MacBeth, a war critic who falsely claimed to be an Iraq veteran.
www.cnn.com /2007/POLITICS/10/03/limbaugh.soldiers/index.html?section=cnn_latest   (603 words)

  
 Remove Rush Limbaugh from American Forces Radio Petition
Limbaugh, whose program is broadcast for one hour per day to U.S. troops overseas, has spent the past four weeks condoning and trivializing the abuse, torture, rape and possible murder of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. guards at the Abu Ghraib prison—gross misconduct that you have described as “fundamentally un-American.”
Limbaugh’s radio program is broadcast to American troops via the American Services Network, a taxpayer-funded radio and television broadcasting agency that reaches nearly 1 million US troops in more than 175 countries, including Iraq.
Limbaugh’s comments directly contradict orders issued by the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq -- which, according to the Washington Post, bar “military interrogators from using the most coercive techniques available to them in the past” -- thus undermining the military’s chain of command.
www.petitiononline.com /mmfa2/petition.html   (427 words)

  
 This is What Rush Limbaugh Thinks About People Who use Drugs: And What the Faux President Thinks About the Demagogue ...
If Rush is seen to be a fraud to his listeners, they may choose to believe the rest of the right-wing agenda is a fraud as well, or at the very least hypocritical.
Rush's lame response to the allegations of the National Enquirer, "I don't know what this is yet," is criminal.
Rush cannot be allowed to spend decades taking the cheapest pot shots possible for political gain and then be allowed to continued when the soapbox he has been standing on is in reality a bin of illegal drugs.
www.buzzflash.com /analysis/03/10/ana03004.html   (1046 words)

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